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  2. Huldrych Zwingli - Wikipedia

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    Huldrych or Ulrich Zwingli [a] [b] (1 January 1484 – 11 October 1531) He was a Swiss Christian theologian, musician, and leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.Born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenary system, he attended the University of Vienna and the University of Basel, a scholarly center of Renaissance humanism.

  3. Theology of Huldrych Zwingli - Wikipedia

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    Huldrych Zwingli, woodcut by Hans Asper, 1531 The theology of Ulrich Zwingli was based on an interpretation of the Bible, taking scripture as the inspired word of God and placing its authority higher than what he saw as human sources such as the ecumenical councils and the church fathers.

  4. Affair of the Sausages - Wikipedia

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    Smoked sausages. Ulrich Zwingli was a pastor in Zurich and was preaching in a way that associated him with Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther. [1] His first rift with the established religious authorities in Switzerland occurred during the Lenten fast of 1522, when he was present during the eating of sausages at the house of Christoph Froschauer, a printer in the city who later published ...

  5. History of Reformed Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Sixteenth-century portrait of John Calvin by an unknown artist. From the collection of the Bibliothèque de Genève (Library of Geneva). John Calvin is the most well-known Reformed theologian of the generation following Zwingli's death, but recent scholarship has argued that several previously overlooked individuals had at least as much influence on the development of Reformed Christianity and ...

  6. Marburg Colloquy - Wikipedia

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    The Marburg Colloquy was a meeting at Marburg Castle, Marburg, Hesse, Germany, which attempted to solve a disputation between Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli over the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. It took place between 1 October and 4 October 1529. The leading Protestant reformers of the time attended at the behest of Philip I of ...

  7. Anabaptism - Wikipedia

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    Anabaptism in Switzerland began as an offshoot of the church reforms instigated by Ulrich Zwingli. As early as 1522, it became evident that Zwingli was on a path of reform preaching when he began to question or criticize such Catholic practices as tithes, the mass, and even infant baptism. Zwingli had gathered a group of reform-minded men ...

  8. Christianity in the 16th century - Wikipedia

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    Ulrich Zwingli, wearing the scholar's cap. Ulrich Zwingli was a Swiss scholar and parish priest who was likewise influential in the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation. Zwingli claimed that his theology owed nothing to Luther and that he had developed it in 1516, before Luther's famous protest, though his doctrine of justification was ...

  9. Timeline of Huldrych Zwingli - Wikipedia

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    Zwingli marries Anna Reinhard; German Peasants' War; 1526: Zwingli publishes his tract "On the true & false religion" Luther marries Katharina von Bora; Anabaptist movement in Switzerland; 1528: Charles V sacks Rome; 1529: Reformation in Berne; 1530: Zwingli meets Luther for the first time in the Marburg Colloquy; Augsburg Confession; 1531 ...